Table des matières
1. Fathers and Sons
Book I
- Polemarchus Wants You to Wait (1.327a–328c)
- Cephalus: Justice is Paying Your Debts and Telling the Truth (1.328c–331d)
- Polemarchus: Justice is Benefiting Friends and Harming Enemies (1.331d–336a)
- Is Justice a Craft? (1.332c–334b)
- Speaking of Friends… (1.334c–335a)
- But Does the Just Person Harm Anyone? (1.335b–336a)
- Some Suggestions for Further Reading
2. Taming the Beast: Socrates versus Thrasymachus
Book I
- Enter Thrasymachus: Justice Is Whatever Benefits the Powerful (1.336a–39b)
- Five Arguments Against Thrasymachus’ Definition of Justice
- The Error Argument (1.338c–343a)
- The Craft Argument (1.341c–348b)
- The Outdoing Argument (1.348b–350d)
- The Common Purpose Argument (1.350d–352d)
- The Function Argument (1.352d–354c)
- Some Suggestions for Further Reading
3. A Fresh Start
Book II
- Three Kinds of Goods (2.357a–358a)
- Glaucon’s Three Thrasymachan Theses (2.358a–362c)
- Thrasymachan Thesis #1: Justice is Conventional, Not Natural (2.358e–359b)
- Thrasymachan Thesis #2: Those Who Act Justly Do So Unwillingly (2.359b–360d)
- Thrasymachan Thesis #3: The Unjust Person is Happier than the Just Person (2.360e–362c)
- Adeimantus Ups the Ante (2.362d–367e)
- Socrates’ Plan: Investigate Personal Justice by Investigating Political Justice (2.367e–369a)
- A False Start: Socrates’ Rustic Utopia (2.369b–373a)
- Some Suggestions for Further Reading
4. Blueprints for a Platonic Utopia: Education and Culture
Books II and III
- Supervising the Storytellers: Musical and Poetic Content (2.376c–3.392c)
- Supervising the Storytellers: Musical and Poetic Style (3.392c–401d)
- The Aesthetically Beautiful and the Morally Beautiful (3.401d–403c, 412b–e)
- Physical Education—and Food (3.403c–405a)
- Symptoms of Poorly Educated Cities: Too Many Lawyers and Doctors (3.405a–408c)
- Harmony between Musical and Physical Education (3.410a–412b)
- The Noble Falsehood (3.414b–417b)
- Some Suggestions for Further Reading
8. Surfing the Third Wave: Plato’s Metaphysical Elevator, the Powers Argument, and the Infallibility of Knowledge
Book V
- Philosopher-Kings and Political Animals (5.471c–474c)
- Philosophers and Non-Philosophers
- Plato’s Metaphysical Elevator
- Marrying Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Powers Argument (5.476d–480a)
- Problems with the Powers Argument
- Plato’s Fallible Conception of Infallibility
- Some Suggestions for Further Reading
9. The Philosopher’s Virtues
Book VI
11. The Allegory of the Cave
Book VII
12. The Decline and Fall of the Ideal City-Soul
Books VIII–IX
- The Aristocratic City and Soul (8.543a–547c)
- The Timocratic City and Soul (8.547c–550c)
- The Oligarchic City and Soul (8.550c–555b)
- The Democratic City and Soul (8.555b–562a)
- Interlude: Necessary versus Unnecessary Appetites
- Democracy, Continued
- The Tyrannical City and Soul (8.562a–9.576b)
- Interlude: Lawless versus Lawful Desires
- Tyranny, Continued
- Some Suggestions for Further Reading
13. The Republic’s Second Question Answered: Three and a Half Arguments that the Just Life is Happier
Book IX
- Argument #1: Comparing Characters (9.576b–580c)
- Argument #2: The Soul’s Distinct Pleasures (9.580d–583a)
- Argument #3: The Metaphysics of Pleasure (9.583b–588a)
- Contrary versus Contradictory Opposites
- Optical and Hedonic Illusions
- The Metaphysical Elevator and the Metaphysics of Pleasure
- Argument #3½: ‘an image of the soul in words’ (9.588b–590e)
- Paternalism (9.590d)
- Some Suggestions for Further Reading
14. Are We There Yet? Tying up Loose Ends in Book X
- The ‘Ancient Quarrel’ between Poetry and Philosophy (10.595a–608b)
- The Metaphysical Argument: Art Merely Makes Copies of Copies, and Thus is not Worth Taking Seriously
- The Epistemological Argument: Artists Literally Do Not Know What They Are Talking and Painting about
- The Moral Argument: Art Corrupts Even the Best of Us
- A Four-Part Soul?
- The Immortality of the Soul (10.608c–614b)
- The Myth of Er (10.614a–21c)
- Some Suggestions for Further Reading
